Description

Implemented (with slight differences) in GHC HEAD (6.13) as the AlternativeLayoutRule extension.

One bug, going right back to the original definition, is that

foo = let { x = x } in x

gets translated into

foo = let { x = x } } in x

This needs to be resolved before we can proceed.

Additionally, there has been some discussion as to how the rule should behave exactly. In particular, some people believe that it would be better to keep the rule simple by not doing anything with commas, at the cost of rejecting more H98 code. It would be possible to transition to this, by issuing a warning if the new comma rules are needed.

Some differences between the H98 and this rule are exercised by tests in the layout section of GHC's testsuite.